JEHOVAH'S WITNESS IN PERM ARRESTED AFTER SEARCH
A resident of Perm who is suspected of professing the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses, 48-year-old Alexander Soloviev, was sent to temporary detention in an isolation cell. As the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reports, he was arrested in the evening of 22 May and the question of the selection of the measure to insure appearance should be decided on 24 May.
Alexander Soloviev and his wife, Anna, returned home after a foreign trip. Friends who arrived to meet them at the train station Perm-2 saw that law enforcement personnel approached the train car, handcuffed Alexander, and took him with his wife in different vehicles to an unknown destination.
Searches were conducted in their apartment all night from 22 to 23 May, during which all documents to the property, electronic equipment, data storage, wi-fi router, photographs, and a collection of Bibles were seized.
Alexander Soloviev is in the temporary detention cell and his wife is now released.
According to information on 24 May, at least nine Jehovah's Witnesses are in Russian prisons, one is under house arrest, and no fewer than thirteen are under a written pledge not to depart. Practically all are accused under article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. (tr. by PDS, posted 24 May 2018)
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